24 December 2008: Holidays

Here are some of our favorite ways to give money at this time of year. TMN will resume publishing on Jan. 5, 2009. Happy holidays.

Making the world safe for avant-garde art: Franklin Furnace.

Clean Ocean Action: Making waves to save seas.

Turning Point: Providing outreach, housing, and literacy skills to both foreign-born and Brooklyn locals, young and old.

Help women with low incomes attend Born to Drum.

American Friends Service Committee: Promoting peace and social justice the Quaker way.

Citymeals-on-Wheels brings food--weekends, weekdays, holidays--to homebound elderly New Yorkers.

Habitat for Humanity in Charlotte: building homes in North Carolina for 25 years.

The Cabin: Inspiring reading, writing, and discourse in Idaho.

With Kiva, your gift is a loan to a struggling entrepreneur in poverty.

The Millennium Promise: evidence-based, low-cost interventions at a village level.

Iowan citizens get results on local issues through Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement.

Charity Newsies: Because no kid should be kept out of school for lack of adequate clothing.

Calvary Women's Services, providing a variety of assistance to homeless women.

Remember your door-to-door Halloween box? Unicef works.